Example sentences of "my [noun] i [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was strapped so tightly around my ankles I think it stopped the circulation in my feet . |
| 2 | From the bottom of my heart I thank you . ’ |
| 3 | In my heart I know she is mine but the uncertainty over all this is agonising . |
| 4 | In my heart I knew he was dead , but I wanted to hear what she would say … |
| 5 | ‘ It was done by experts and in my heart I knew it was wrong . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ It is indeed , my lord — with all my heart I say it is . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Perhaps , ’ I agreed but in my heart I doubted it . |
| 8 | And on my faith me think it good reason |
| 9 | With my accent I thought I 'd be smashed to pieces or fucked in half after five minutes in here . |
| 10 | For my part I think it is right to accept that that was in the eyes of the appellants a formality . |
| 11 | For my part I feel it was a great shame that this reminder to us all of a man 's bravery should have disappeared . |
| 12 | This is the distortion of perception referred to by Bruch , but I must add that in my case I see it less as a longstanding perceptual difficulty than as a consequence of my general state of confusion as to my self-image . |
| 13 | He admitted he had been stupid , but said : ‘ They are too easily available and from my experience I think they should be banned . ’ |
| 14 | I thought that it was made of stone , but to my horror I discovered it was made of cement blocks ! |
| 15 | Er cos er my son-in-law I mean I put on the form right I 've got no children right . |
| 16 | And in my mind I saw them reaching between their legs to clutch their precious bags . |
| 17 | If he were not a mere creature of my mind I imagine he would by now have fallen into a dangerous sleep of despair and exhaustion , frozen in a little car outside a small cottage he is too fearful to enter . |
| 18 | I , I 'm , I 'm not with you on that one because erm I 'm sure I 'm vaguely at the back of my mind I think I know what it is , I have heard of it I mean |
| 19 | Even in my mind I found it extremely unwieldy trying to lance one — let alone 100,000 — from a charging steed . |
| 20 | It was my fault I neglected her . |
| 21 | When I have found my tension I write it on a adhesive label and stick this on the inside of the cone , catching the tail end of yarn to the label at the same time . |
| 22 | The windows were obscured by curtains , but if I strained my eyes I thought I could make out the shadow of a figure standing behind them , never moving . |
| 23 | They bring me dogs bones for the dogs and they like talking to my parrot I wish I could get rid of the bleeding thing though . |
| 24 | Did you like my card I sent you ? |
| 25 | My knees I tell you what you ca n't , you know |
| 26 | I 'd read of automatic writing so in my grief I tried it , spending many hours holding a felt-tip pen over paper . |
| 27 | The worse thing I 've ever done is wax for my legs I did it once mhm |
| 28 | my lines I think I 've possibly got them |
| 29 | She looked as big as a donkey and when the cavernous jaws with the great yellowed teeth brushed my thigh I knew it was time to go . |
| 30 | well erm , sort of in that erm , I was asked to come and do this talk , and so I , I organise to make sure that I had access to some of Gaugin 's work and then to write poems about it , erm , so , erm , only in as much as that it was a waiting to hear this talk , but a lot of my work is through commissions and so I find myself writing about things that I perhaps do n't have any interest in particularly , erm , or I find actually in a waiting , asked to write about anything is quite er exciting and actually using my skill I think it should be , as a writer I should really be able to write about everything . |